Fig. 2. Mean number of severe medical symptoms at pretransitional, transitional, and posttransitional visits for CG whose spouses were at home at all three visits (HHH), CG who placed their patient at follow-up (HPP), CG who placed spouses with subsequent death of the spouse at follow-up (HPD), CG whose spouse died at home (HDD), and noncaregiving control subjects (C).